Juice On The Go

For regular readers of our blog, it’s easy to tell that vending machines and food trucks get us going! Well, an LA-based, organic, detox juice company named Kreation features both our obsessions.

By supporting a more organic, locally produced and freshly-squeezed method of serving juices, the company is trying to “provide nourishing, clean fuel for the mind, body, and spirit”. Apart from offering their products in a traditional retail way, they have also decided to launch a juice vending machine and juice carts. The juice-bottle vending machine is for now only featured in the Beverly Hills juicery. The detox-ATM is quite properly coloured in an orange hue and offers 24-hour services. If you feel like detoxing and charging up with vitamins in the middle of the night, there is your chance!

Additionally, the brand offers multiple options of receiving their products at your place or bumping onto them while on the streets of LA. The Juice Kar and the Juice Bike deliver the products at your door, while the Juice Truck invites you to an urban vitamin-hunting. You can follow the Juice Truck on Twitter and learn its current position.

Travelers of the Catalan Government Railways (Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya) will have plenty to read over the coming months as the trains are turned into virtual libraries, where 40 books are displayed on posters. After scanning a book’s QR code, travelers are enabled to read the first chapter of every book.

Amazon just released Kindle 2. Kindle is an e-book reader for iPhone and iPod Touch. The application allows users to read books using a simple interface. Hundreds of thousands of those e-books are available for download.

Next week, on Thursday 4 October, we’re bringing Europe’s finest city, design and culture bloggers to Amsterdam for Blogging the City, a one-day festival where the ‘blogosphere’ discusses the urban future. Ahead of the event, we’ll introduce you to some of our speakers through a series of short interviews. First one is Martijn de Waal, Amsterdam-based journalist and researcher and one of the founders of The Mobile City, a blog run by an independent research group that investigates the influence of digital media technologies on urban life, and the implications for urban design.

With the Conflux Festival recently taking place in New York City, and the 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art currently happening here in Toronto, I can’t help but note the incredible rise in popularity that location-based performance art and psychogeographic art interventions have enjoyed over the last decade. I’m also reminded of the first project…